The lifestyle guru tries to fix America’s messy homes with her ‘if in doubt, throw it out’ spirit. And that’s precisely what Netflix should have done
Shows where lifestyle gurus waft into unhappy homes and fix something aren’t really about that thing. Supernanny distributed wisdom about naughty steps and regular bedtimes, but really she was schooling parents in how to do a task for which they’d never been instructed. On It’s Me or the Dog, Victoria Stilwell knew about treats and walkies, but she was actually training the owners to stop freaking out dogs with their own bad behaviour.
By contrast, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo (Netflix) is dangerously close to being a show where a woman just tells people to tidy up.
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